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Poussinesque, a.|puːsæˈnɛsk| [f. the name Poussin (see below) + -esque.] Pertaining to or characteristic of the French landscape painter Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) or his work; resembling or influenced by the style of Poussin.
1919R. Fry Let. 9 Feb. (1972) II. 446 La Jeune Parque seems to me to have a quality of pure beauty—in the Miltonic Poussinesque direction that hardly any modern work possesses. 1934Burlington Mag. Dec. 297/2 We hear nothing of Pierre Lamaire..whose variant of the Poussinesque landscape formula is yet quite a notable and personal one. 1944Ibid. Aug. 186/2 It is no longer possible..to point to individual figures as Poussinesque. 1955Times 12 May 5/5 There is a brilliant little canvas by him of women bathing in a Poussinesque landscape. 1964Listener 9 Jan. 57/1 The combination of rectilinear and diagonal movements in plane and inferred space..attains a complexity and variety of such a high order that we recognize it as ‘Poussinesque’. 1979Basildon Park (National Trust) 18 The Poussin-esque landscape by Francisque Millet (1642–79) on the west wall. |